Indeed, gcc 2.96 libstdc++ was not thread safe. But that aside, current
thread-safe versions are tied to pthreads, and so would not have worked
with a third-party thread library.
Closing as CURRENTRELEASE, as it seems that the main complaint was vs
the non-thread-safe-ness.

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